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A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands Edith Keeler Must Die, Paul Lynde To Block, and And What About Naomi? If you like this sort of bite-sized absurdism, check out "A Year of Weekends," which collects all the 2024 band posters. Free download pdf, https://bit.ly/AYOW24 Or, you can order a deluxe trade paperback at Lulu.com, https://bit.ly/AYOW_lulu

Pirate Cove Music Fest goes full color-cathode-ray retro! Edith Keeler Must Die leads Friday’s trek, Paul Lynde To Block unleashes glitter-cannon game-show chaos, and And What About Naomi? brings earnest, paranoid variety-hour gorilla suit vibes. UHF-limbo undercard included. Willoughby, next stop.

A sepia-toned card with a ghostly, spiderwebby organic scribbled half image all around the edges. All text is in an idiosyncratic handwritten font. At the top, the title, "New Proverbs of Hell," and at the bottom, the number 76. Proverb: "Never get too big to edit." Exegesis: "While some artists thrive on creative freedom, the risk of producing a highly polished work of utter cringetastic banality cannot be overstated. And we need all voices."

I swear Proverb 76 is not a reaction to any one particular show we recently saw.

Also great: “Baker’s Wife” at the Classic Theatre Company, with Ariana DeBose (stellar!) and Scott Bakula.

Two people sit on a stage talking.

Playbill for “The Seat of Our Pants,” with the opening act set — a bare carpet with a fire pit in the center—visible in the background.

Playbill for “The Baker’s Wife,” with the set, a French village square in the background

“Seat of Your Pants” composer and playwright Ethan Lipton, discusses adapting Thornton Wilder’s “Skin of Our Teeth” with D.R. Lewis at the American Theater Critics/Journalists Conference. At the Public, opens 11/13. Get tickets now before the reviews hit; this is the best show we’ve seen this season

Two folks with gray hair stand in front of the sculpture “The Alamo” in Greenwich Village

We have spun the Alamo. Downtown at the Public for the ATCA conference today and seeing “Seat of our Pants” (the musical of “Skin of our Teeth) and “The Baker’s Wife”

Playbill for “This World of Tomorrow” with the stage in the background; the set is a series of square columns in dim lighting.

I am about to see the future.

Panelists Zoe Saldana and Joel Kirk talk with ATCA’s Lou Harry.

Joel Kirk of “Discovering Broadway” talks about the importance of supporting artists. “Recklessly invest in the people you believe in.” With ATCA’s Lou Harry, and composer Zoe Saldana.

Panel at the American Theater Critics/Journalists conference, featuring actors and creative from the new Broadway play “Liberation.”

Panel on the new Broadway play “Liberation” at the American Theater Critics/Journalists conference, NY

A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands The Noperthedron, Lethal Kinetic Strike, and Surprise Bidet. If you like this sort of bite-sized absurdism, check out "A Year of Weekends," which collects all the 2024 band posters. Free download pdf, https://bit.ly/AYOW24 Or, you can order a deluxe trade paperback at Lulu.com, https://bit.ly/AYOW_lulu

PCMF: Tonight: The Noperthedron busts open math rock touring their monster debut album ¡No Pasaran! Saturday, Lethal Kinetic Strike unleashes death metal from above. Sunday, Surprise Bidet brings avant-surf chaos of which one must be silent. And don't miss S09.90XA's PCMF debut! Free on the beach.

A sepia-toned card with a ghostly, spiderwebby organic scribbled half image all around the edges. All text is in an idiosyncratic handwritten font. At the top, the title, "New Proverbs of Hell," and at the bottom, the number 75. Proverb: "Play it all night long." Exegesis: "Celebrating the long overdue induction of the songwriting genius Warren Zevon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

Proverb 75 sez turn those speakers up full blast...
cf: rockhall.com/inductees/wa...

ngl teared up a little

A sepia-toned card with a ghostly, spiderwebby organic scribbled half image all around the edges. All text is in an idiosyncratic handwritten font. At the top, the title, "New Proverbs of Hell," and at the bottom, the number 74. Proverb: "Never fly down the center of a canyon." Exegesis: "Always pick a side so you can turn around if things get hairy."

Proverb 74 reminds you to also consider density altitude.

A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands MÉTÂhÖSĘ, South Carerddd and Zero Matter. If you like this sort of bite-sized absurdism, check out "A Year of Weekends," which collects all the 2024 band posters. Free download pdf, https://bit.ly/AYOW24 Or, you can order a deluxe trade paperback at Lulu.com, https://bit.ly/AYOW_lulu

Pirate Cove Music Fest: MÉTÂhÖSĘ deconstructs brand worship with autopoietic agents on Friday; Saturday’s South Carerddd blends cybergrind apocalypse and demented mumbling; Sunday’s Zero Matter rips spacetime on Negative Density Horizon. Bring a towel, a Geiger counter, and something to believe in.

A gray haired man considers a sock puppet flawlessly outfitted as Agent Carter.

Best thing I’ve won in an Interfilk auction: one-of-a-kind Agent Carter sock puppet by Erin Bellavia (used in Via Bella’s Pegasus Concert performance Friday). It has weird hypnotic powers & suggests that you, too, should donate to Interfilk to support filker travel to cons. Do not ignore the puppet.

I have been a Daily News reader since the 1960s, when my Teamster father-Local 804-would bring the paper home every night. I actually subscribed, out of a stupid notion about saving print journalism. Well. Let me just say, fuck you and your spineless Vichy editorial board.

It’s a giant circus meant
To distract the media
From his pal Jeffrey Epstein
Venezuelan homicide
Nazis in the DOJ
Get pushed off the front page

Tearing down the house

Big crooks
Come running up to bribe him
Please sir
They say with tear-streaked faces
Won’t you take three hundred million bucks
Tearing down the house

He just wants to see himself
On TV with Fox and Friends
Getting kissed on the keister
Not one damn Republican
Stands up to this narcissist
And his galaxy brain

All gone
It’s utter devastation
Looks like
Pix of Ukraine or Gaza
But this attack is coming from within
Tearing down the house

People on their Bluesky feed
Say what the fuck do you expect
He just shit on the country.
Even corp’rate media
Have to pause and scratch their heads
How can we make this sound sane?

Goddamn
It’s all just bits and pieces
Now he’s
Out grooving on the rubble
All because some people
Called him king
Tearing down the house

Tearing Down The House
(With apologies to the Talking Heads)

Stand back
He’s got a giant backhoe
Too late
He’s chewing up a building
That survived the war of 1812
Tearing down the house

And the closing night sees a band that needs no introduction: Resistance Frog, straight from their residency in Portland.

Ed. Note: For avoidance of doubt: every band name is human-created. I’ve lost count, but it’s over 3,000 now.

A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands Vindictive Prosecution, Cassandra's Mallet, and Resistance Frog. If you like this sort of bite-sized absurdism, check out "A Year of Weekends," which collects all the 2024 band posters. Free download pdf, https://bit.ly/AYOW24 Or, you can order a deluxe trade paperback at Lulu.com, https://bit.ly/AYOW_lulu

Pirate Cove Music Fest time! What a week. Vindictive Prosecution headlines Friday touring behind their multi-platinum album (the number we hear is 7 million) “Motion to Dismiss.” Saturday kicks it up a notch with Cassandra’s Mallet. Expect massive cosplay for their TikTok smash “Maleus Maleficarum.”

A sepia-toned card with a ghostly, spiderwebby organic scribbled half image all around the edges. All text is in an idiosyncratic handwritten font. At the top, the title, "New Proverbs of Hell," and at the bottom, the number 73. Proverb: "Never choose taste." Exegesis: "When Alex Horne presents a range of sensory options, consider carefully what the second part of the task might comprise."

Now comes Proverb 73 with a generalizable rule from Taskmaster.

An image of a building in ruins just came up in my feed, and before I read the caption, I couldn't tell whether it was Kiev, Gaza, or the White House.

A sepia-toned card with a ghostly, spiderwebby organic scribbled half image all around the edges. All text is in an idiosyncratic handwritten font. At the top, the title, "New Proverbs of Hell," and at the bottom, the number 72. Proverb: "When someone shows you themselves taking a dump on America, believe tham." Exegesis: "Steinbeck said Americans considered themselves temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Today's desperate wannabes are all Ayn Rand's Special Little Boys, temporarily disempowered Kings of the World."

Proverb 72 cannot believe we have come to this point, but here we are.

This is just to say

i have taken back
everything
i ever sent you
in the chat

and which
you were likely
quoting
in a story

Forgive me
you're not a journalist
so it's weird
just letting you know.

Review: WITCHING HOUR SOCIAL CLUB at Burbage Theatre Co Horror, they say, is a mood rather than a genre. With the right twist, even a romcom can evoke fear and revulsion. And the Burbage Theatre's world premiere of James Lucey's 'Witching Hour Social Club'...

Latest review up at BroadwayWorld.

The Times still assumes that it's "people in rooms" who make news and that "people in the street" don't. This is the new normal for institutions that depend on a Mad King's largesse for access to those rooms.